Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.